10 December
Notable Births
Jeremie Frimpong
b. 2000
Dutch footballer (born 2000)
Reiss Nelson
b. 1999
English footballer (born 1998)
Lucia Bronzetti
b. 1998
Italian tennis player (born 1998)
Joe Burrow
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Kang Daniel
b. 1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Tacko Fall
b. 1995
Senegalese basketball player (born 1995)
Richard Kennar
b. 1994
Samoan rugby league footballer
Matti Klinga
b. 1994
Finnish footballer (born 1994)
Carlos Rodón
b. 1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Melissa Roxburgh
b. 1992
Canadian actress (born 1992)
KiKi Layne
b. 1991
American actress (born 1991)
Eric Reid
b. 1991
American football player (born 1991)
Dion Waiters
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Wil Myers
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Teyana Taylor
b. 1990
American singer and actress (born 1990)
Shoya Tomizawa
b. 1990
Japanese motorcycle racer
Marion Maréchal
b. 1989
French politician (born 1989)
Tom Sexton (rugby union)
b. 1989
Rugby player
Wilfried Bony
b. 1988
Ivorian footballer (born 1988)
Neven Subotić
b. 1988
Serbian footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Rocky Colavito
d. 2024
American baseball player (1933–2024)
Michael Cole (actor)
d. 2024
American actor (1940–2024)
The Amazing Kreskin
d. 2024
American mentalist (1935–2024)
S. M. Krishna
d. 2024
Indian politician (1932–2024)
Julian Carroll
d. 2023
American politician (1931–2023)
Michael Nesmith
d. 2021
American musician, songwriter, and actor (1942–2021)
Tommy Lister Jr.
d. 2020
American actor and wrestler (1958–2020)
Joseph Safra
d. 2020
Lebanese-Brazilian banker (1938–2020)
Carol Sutton (actress)
d. 2020
American actress (1944–2020)
Barbara Windsor
d. 2020
English actress (1937–2020)
Philip McKeon
d. 2019
American actor (1964–2019)
Gershon Kingsley
d. 2019
German-American composer and musician (1922–2019)
Emily Mason (painter)
d. 2019
American painter and printmaker (1932–2019)
Bruce Brown (director)
d. 2017
American filmmaker (1937–2017)
Max Clifford
d. 2017
English publicist and convicted sex offender (1943–2017)
Angry Grandpa
d. 2017
American YouTube personality (1950–2017)
Curtis W. Harris
d. 2017
American politician
Ron Bouchard
d. 2015
American racing driver
Arnold Peralta
d. 2015
Honduran footballer (1989-2015)
Dolph Schayes
d. 2015
American basketball player and coach (1928–2015)
On This Day in History
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2021
A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.
Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021
2019
The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.
Ostrava hospital shooting
2017
ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
Islamic State
2016
Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.
December 2016 Istanbul bombings
2015
Rojava conflict: The Syrian Democratic Council is established in Dêrik, forming the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria.
Rojava Revolution
2014
Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
Ziad Abu Ein
2005
Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people.
Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145
1999
Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.
Helen Clark
1996
The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.
Constitution of South Africa
1995
The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.
Israeli Ground Forces
1994
Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
Rwandan genocide
1993
The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
Monkwearmouth Colliery
1992
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan establishes the Marriage Fund in the United Arab Emirates in response to rising wedding prices.
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
1991
The Nagorno-Karabakh independence referendum is held, with 99.98% voting in favor of independence.
1991 Nagorno-Karabakh independence referendum
1991
Nursultan Nazarbayev is sworn in as the 1st President of Kazakhstan.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
1991
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is renamed into the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
1989
Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
Mongolian Revolution of 1990
1984
United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.
United Nations General Assembly
1983
Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
Democracy
1979
Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
Kaohsiung Incident